Новости за 01.05.2024

The Spyker C8 is one of the rarest cars in the world. Even though the company was founded in 1999, the company didn’t actually start producing vehicles until 2003 with the C8. Just 266 C8s were made from ’03 until the company’s bankruptcy in 2010. If you’ve got deep pockets, you can own one of these beautiful…

Everything that was cool in the 1990s has gone through the coolness cycle into dorky, ironically cool, and back to genuinely cool again. Watch enthusiasts and Formula 1fanatics are falling over themselves to argue about the new collaboration between Tag Heuer watches and streetwear brand Kith, a retro-cool revival of…

If there’s one thing New York City Mayor Eric Adams wants you to know about the student protests on the campuses of Columbia University and City College of New York, it’s not that the students are justifiably upset about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. No, after nearly 300 people were arrested for protesting, Adams…

A federal judge ruled last week that a British airline passenger must pay $20,638 for interfering with the flight crew on a United Airlines flight between London and Newark, New Jersey on March 1. According to the Department of Justice’s account, the unruly passenger got into an argument so heated with his girlfriend…

A Wavy Boats videoof a group of partiers dumping two garbage cans full of trash into the ocean while leaving the Boca Bashthen returning to the party has been making the rounds online and now, with law enforcement.The social media response has been intense, and though none of the offenders’ identities have been…

When you were a kid and you had a little radio control car that you zoomed around the kitchen floor or built jumps for in the back yard, did you throw it away when the batteries died? For many owners of early electric vehicles from a decade or more ago, that seems to be the answer to electrical issues. If your 2012 Tes…

There’s nothing German automakers like doing more than screwing with their naming conventions, and BMW is once again doing just that. However, instead of making things more complicated and confusing, it’s actually streamlining its naming structure by dropping “i” from the end of its internal combustion-powered…

The Department of Transportation announced a new final rule last week that would require airlines to automatically refund passengers whose flights are canceled or significantly delayed. There are some exceptions, but in general, it’s a huge win for passengers who are tired of airlines giving them the runaround. As…

Ferrari unveiled an off-one special livery for the Miami Grand Prix that has left Formula 1 fans universally underwhelmed. The venerated Italian brand will be running its traditional red race cars with added splashes of blue and new Hewlett-Packard logos. It’s undeniable that expectations were high last week when…

BMW calls the 15-horsepower 48 volt electric motor in the new CE 02 electric scooter an “externally excited air-cooled synchronous motor.” That’s a really fancy way of saying that the Motorrad division of the company raided the automobile side of the company’s parts bin for a current 3-series alternator and repurposed…

Typically, you would think that once someone retires, their hobbies would include things like working on their project car, gardening or perhaps traveling the country in their RV. Apparently, though, one retired Austin, Texas car dealer decided none of those things were interesting enough and decided to take up arson…

What if famed Italian design house made a sim racing rig that you’d be proud to have and display in your home? Designer Fabio Bilotta set out to develop this idea into the piece you see here, called the Pininfarina Formula Concept. A gorgeous blend of formed dark plywood and carbon fiber, this beautiful piece of…

Aircraft safety is a hot topic these days, with Federal Aviation Administration investigators looking into door seals at Boeing, aircraft slides flying off mid air and engine failures plaguing several planes in recent months. But what happens if the power in your plane actually does go out? That’s an issue that nobody…

Despite the fact Tesla CEO Elon Musk laid off pretty much the entire Supercharger team earlier this week, he says the automaker still plans to grow the network… sort of. Musk’s post on his social media site, X, comes just days after reports that the Austin, Texas-based automaker was cutting 500 jobs from its…

It’s confirmed: Adrian Newey, perhaps the greatest car designer in the history of Formula 1, is departing from the Red Bull Racing team that helped define his legacy. Red Bull has confirmed that Newey will remain with the team until the first quarter of 2025, after which point he will be leave, Motorsport.com reports.

For some people on the internet, the American muscle car died with the launch of the Mustang Mach-E, for others it’ll come when the Dodge Charger Daytona roars onto our streets in the coming months. For artist Jonathan Schipper it actually came almost a decade ago when he premiered this installation that crashed two…

Boeing just can’t catch a break. From failing safety checks to losing panels and other parts, to the mysterious death of a whistleblower, this is a dark time for the aerospace giant. The cruel hand of fate however has just dealt the company a card that it likely won’t be able to explain away.

I love a good daydream. Everyday life can just be so boring and constricting. It’s good to let the ol’ noggin run wild for a little bit, fantasizing about the things we want if we lived in a different world. That’s sort of what led us to our question from Monday.

It’s no secret that legislation tends to lag behind technological and social advancements, but as technology advances at higher rates than ever before, legislation needs to react faster. Autonomous vehicles have been on California roads for years, but California law only allows enforcement of traffic violations for…

My 2001 Porsche 911 Turbo is nearly out of paint jail after an admittedly quite short stint at Two Brothers in Canton, Ohio. This color-change project started in November and should be done any day now, and I’ve heard of jobs like this stretching over a year. I’m anxious to get my car back to drive it this summer, but…

When I was a kid, my family took me to a drive-through “safari” somewhere up in Canada as part of our family vacation. During that safari, a big-ass monkey jumped on top of our car; as someone in the under-five age demographic, that was the most terrifying thing to ever happen to me. From that day on, I’ve carried an…

Tesla announced Tuesdaythat it will lay off everyone who works on both the new vehicle and Supercharger teams. At this point, no one has any idea what CEO Elon Musk was thinking or what’s going to happen going forward. Including other automakers that recently switched to NACS. Maybe Musk is just looking to get out of…

Good morning! It’s Wednesday, May 1, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know.

While it may never be the first away from a light, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Volvo could reasonably eventually be the last car standing. Let’s decide what such immortality might just cost.